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Sergei Kovtoniuk

Sergei Kovtoniuk

Murmansk

36 yr old (born in 22.07.1989)

Address: 613040, Кировская область, г. Киров-Чепецк, ул. Овражная, 16, ФКУ «ИК № 5 УФСИН России по Кировской области», Ковтонюк Сергей Николаевич, 1989 г.р.

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A resident of Murmansk. In March 2024, he was taken into custody on charges of publicly justifying terrorism over a song he had posted on his VKontakte page in October 2022. According to him, at that time, as a result of conversations with relatives living in Ukraine, “he had formed a false view of what was happening, of reality”, but since then his opinion had changed. On 7 August 2024, Kovtonyuk was sentenced to three years in a general-regime penal colony.

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Address: 613040, Кировская область, г. Киров-Чепецк, ул. Овражная, 16, ФКУ «ИК № 5 УФСИН России по Кировской области», Ковтонюк Сергей Николаевич, 1989 г.р.

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